Where Bush Got His Marching Orders

Or: Why To Bookmark Snopes on Your Browser

Okay, friends, Snopes had researched the quotes given in that email and determined it to be True, BUT pretty much all taken out of context including historical context. They have provided all of the quotes surrounded in big chunks of the context so that you can see the caveats and qualifications. So I guess I have to take back what I said about the dems (at least the ones quoted) being as warmongering as Bush.

www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp

Snopes didn't make any guesses about who the anonymous author/editor was, but I would guess a rep. thinktank/opinionmaker. I suspected it was a hoax primarily because of the "Send this to everyone you know" tag at the bottom.

Sometimes I wonder if the hoaxmakers themselves go to Snopes when they are feeling low on inspiration!

Ivieee

(Above written as "Reply to All" in response to the anonymously written mass email below. When I get hoaxes forwarded to me I tend to look 'em up on Snopes and do a "Reply to All" to set the record straight. Obnoxious to the people on the mailing list who don't know me? Maybe. Just doing my part to "TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PRESIDENT LEADING US TO WAR" in this case. If you get bored with the quotes just go on down to the bottom.)

WHERE BUSH GOT HIS MARCHING ORDERS

"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them.  That is our bottom line."

- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998

 

"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear.  We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."

- President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998

 

"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."

- Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998

 

"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."

- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998

 

"We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."

- Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sen’s. Carl Levin (D-MI), Tom Daschle (D-SD), John Kerry ( D - MA), and others Oct. 9, 1998

.....(I delete a whole lot of quotes for the sake of brevity)....

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation.. And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real."

- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003

 

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SO NOW THESE SAME DEMOCRATS SAY PRESIDENT BUSH LIED, THAT THERE NEVER WERE ANY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, AND THAT HE TOOK US TO WAR UNNECESSARILY!

 

TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PRESIDENT LEADING US TO WAR.

 

Send this to everybody you know. The networks won't do it.  It's up to us to get the word out.